This guide is for public transit to/from KIS locations and useful destinations (Costco, E-mart, Homeplus, Samsung Medical, KIS staff neighborhoods). Please, if you add/update, limit yourself to these places. If we start adding restaurants, small grocery stores, gyms, tourist destinations, etc., it will get too cluttered to be useful. If you want to start another page and map for those sorts of things, please feel free to do so. :-)
(Scroll down for quick links to tables and maps.)
It is easy to get around Seoul and its suburbs on public transit. There are other pages on this wiki that describe it well; my goal is to describe your public transit options in two pages for anyone who lives in any KIS neighborhood. The first page will be this cover page; the second page will be one specific to your neighborhood.
First, YOU MUST GO to Steve’s wonderfully informative page here that tells you how to use Naver to figure out bus routes, bus stops, etc. Steve who? I don’t know -- we have more than one Steve here and have had others in the past. But it’s a great page. Naver is the Korean google, only better. Don’t worry if you can’t read Korean yet -- Steve tells you how to use naver without reading Korean. Go to “1. Bus” and enjoy. (Note to the unknown Steve: I updated it a bit when Naver updated their maps.)
Second, download the Seoul subway app onto your smart phone. If you don’t have a smart phone, get one. This will save your rear in a country where you can’t read or speak the native alphabet, much less the language.
Third, download the Seoul bus app onto your smart phone. Same note as above.
Fourth . . . people, learn your directions. On most maps, north is up. If you’re looking at a map of the US or Canada, East Coast/Maritimes are east, West Coast is west, south is the only one remaining. Your smartphone map is exactly the same (unless you’ve set it differently). It’s really that easy. This is the language I speak. I do not speak “the bus stop down from Woomi”. (My question would be, “Which way is ‘down from Woomi’? -- a question someone once actually answered by saying, “Oh, you know, just up the street . . .”.) I do not speak “behind Migeum station”. (So where’s the front of Migeum station -- given that Migeum station is a location that is entirely underground?) Learn your directions. That’s my only teacher lecture, I promise! :-)
Format of tables is: “If I am in” (location), “what bus/subway takes me to” (location)? Destinations include KIS, the main KIS neighborhoods, E-mart, Home Plus, Costco, and Samsung Medical.
TABLES AND MAPS FROM SOUTH TO NORTH (except KIS, at bottom):
Go here for a map that covers all apartment complexes, neighborhoods, bus stops to/from, subway stations close, Home Plus, E-mart, Costco, E-mart Traders, and Samsung Medical.
Go here for information if you live in Jukjeon (Daedok)
Go here for information if you live in Suji (Samik, Woomi, Good Morning Hill, Sunny Valley, Ramien)
Special subsection for ALL neighborhoods: Go here for specific bus numbers from Migeum station to specific Suji neighborhoods (Samik, Woomi, Good Morning Hill, Sunny Valley, Ramien)
This guide is for public transit to/from KIS locations and useful destinations (Costco, E-mart, Homeplus, Samsung Medical, KIS staff neighborhoods). Please, if you add/update, limit yourself to these places. If we start adding restaurants, small grocery stores, gyms, tourist destinations, etc., it will get too cluttered to be useful. If you want to start another page and map for those sorts of things, please feel free to do so. :-)
(Scroll down for quick links to tables and maps.)
It is easy to get around Seoul and its suburbs on public transit. There are other pages on this wiki that describe it well; my goal is to describe your public transit options in two pages for anyone who lives in any KIS neighborhood. The first page will be this cover page; the second page will be one specific to your neighborhood.
First, YOU MUST GO to Steve’s wonderfully informative page here that tells you how to use Naver to figure out bus routes, bus stops, etc. Steve who? I don’t know -- we have more than one Steve here and have had others in the past. But it’s a great page. Naver is the Korean google, only better. Don’t worry if you can’t read Korean yet -- Steve tells you how to use naver without reading Korean. Go to “1. Bus” and enjoy. (Note to the unknown Steve: I updated it a bit when Naver updated their maps.)
Second, download the Seoul subway app onto your smart phone. If you don’t have a smart phone, get one. This will save your rear in a country where you can’t read or speak the native alphabet, much less the language.
Third, download the Seoul bus app onto your smart phone. Same note as above.
Fourth . . . people, learn your directions. On most maps, north is up. If you’re looking at a map of the US or Canada, East Coast/Maritimes are east, West Coast is west, south is the only one remaining. Your smartphone map is exactly the same (unless you’ve set it differently). It’s really that easy. This is the language I speak. I do not speak “the bus stop down from Woomi”. (My question would be, “Which way is ‘down from Woomi’? -- a question someone once actually answered by saying, “Oh, you know, just up the street . . .”.) I do not speak “behind Migeum station”. (So where’s the front of Migeum station -- given that Migeum station is a location that is entirely underground?) Learn your directions. That’s my only teacher lecture, I promise! :-)
Format of tables is: “If I am in” (location), “what bus/subway takes me to” (location)? Destinations include KIS, the main KIS neighborhoods, E-mart, Home Plus, Costco, and Samsung Medical.
Here are some FAQ's.
TABLES AND MAPS FROM SOUTH TO NORTH (except KIS, at bottom):
Go here for a map that covers all apartment complexes, neighborhoods, bus stops to/from, subway stations close, Home Plus, E-mart, Costco, E-mart Traders, and Samsung Medical.
Go here for information if you live in Jukjeon (Daedok)
Go here for information if you live in Suji (Samik, Woomi, Good Morning Hill, Sunny Valley, Ramien)
Special subsection for ALL neighborhoods: Go here for specific bus numbers from Migeum station to specific Suji neighborhoods (Samik, Woomi, Good Morning Hill, Sunny Valley, Ramien)
Go here for information if you live in Jeongja
Go here for information if you live in Sunae
Go here for information if you live in Bokjeong
Go here if you’re starting your transit trip at KIS